Texas Parks and Wildlife Turns 50 This Year — Agency Calls for Texans To Share Stories, Photos, Become Ambassadors for the Future
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Permalink]AUSTIN – In the late summer of 1963, the most popular show on television was “The Beverly Hillbillies,” a gallon of gas cost 29 cents, the University of Texas Longhorns were headed toward their first national football championship, “My Boyfriend’s Back” was the top hit on AM radio and Texas had a new state agency called the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.